Bottle.



S. ROLFSON-SGHMIDT. BOTTLE'. APPLICATION FILED JULY 16. 1909.

Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

UNITED sTATEs SVEN RULFSON-SCHMIDT, F HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK.

PATENT oEEioE.

BOTTLE.

Specification'. of Letters Patent. Application led July 16, 1909. Serial No. 507,878.

Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

rlhe object of my invention is to provide improved means adapted-to prevent the refilling of a bottle after its original contents have been emptied, and also to provide improved means to prevent tampering with the valve or its weight while at the same time permitting the ready outflow of liquid from the bottle.

My invention comprises the 'novel details of improvement and combinations of parte that will be more fully hereinafter set forth and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein, Figure 1 is a vertical section of a portion of a bottle provided with my improvements; Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2, 2, in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3, 3, in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4, 4, in Fig. l; Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5, 5, in Fig. `1; Fig. 6 is a plan view of the valve shown 1n Fig. 1; Fig. 7 is a plan view of a modied form of the valve; Fig. 8 is a section on the line 8, 8' in Fig. 7 and Fig. 9 is a section on line 9-9 of Fig. 8. Fig. 10 is a side view of a further modified form of valve.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The bottle 1 has a suitable neck 2 provided with seats or annular shoulders 3, 4 suitably spaced apart, seat 4 being shown of less diameter than the seat 3. The valve is indicated at 5 and slide within the shown provided with is of suitable shape to fit and bottle neck. Said valve is a seat 5aL near the upper portion and a seat 5b near the lower portion adapted respectively to fit seats 3 and 4, and the portion of the valve body between seats 5a, 5b, is of less area than the corresponding portion 2a of the bottle neck providing space or spaces 6 between the valve body and the neck and between the seats to permit the flow of fluid outwardly from the bottle when the latter is inverted. The part of the valve between seats 5a, 5b, may be substantially rectangular in cross section so as to be guided in the bottle neck and provide the spaces 6 (see Fig. 5).

ln Figs. 1, 5 and 6 valve 5 is shown hollow and closed at its bottom, the upper portion of the valve being provided above seat 5a with a wallV or rest 5 upon which a weight7 may rest. In the form shown in Figs. 1, 5 and 6 the-valve 5 is provided .with vopenings 5d above seat 5a whereby a hollow valve opening outwardly in the bottle neck is provided.

In Figs. 7, 8 and 9 valve 5 is shown o n on top, closed at the bottom having a ho ow interior and provided with 5c upon which weight 7 may rest, the seats 5, 5* being arranged to tit seats 3 and 4 of the bottle neck in manner before described.

The valve may be made hollow without any openings to admit air or made solid as indicated in Fig. 10, and provided with the seats 5a, 5b, spaced apart as before described, to provide the spaces 6 between the valve and the bottle neck. v

With the arrangements described, the valve will prevent the bottle from being refilled by reason of the weight holding the valve to its seat when the bottle is in an upright or horizontal position, and if the bottle is inverted and liquid forced into the neck the valve will be seated by thefv ofthe liquid, as the liquid will press against the top of the valve or may enter the same and thus serve to push the valve to its seats. Furthermore, if a vacuum is formed in the bottle the valve will close as soon as the vacuum is broken or liquid admitted into the neck, and the arrangement of the space or spaces 6 between seats 8 and 4 and the corresponding seats of the valve is such that if avacuum is applied to the-bottle neck and liquid then enters tlie'neck and forces the valve to its seats the vacuum in the space or spaces 6 will serve in holding the valve to its seat in addition to the partial vacuum that may be within the bottle. The valve may contain one or more weights -oi' .balls a to assist in opening the valve when the bottle is inverted.

the top portion To retain weight or ball 7 in proper position to permit the ready outflow of liquid from the bottle and prevent tampering with the weight and valve I provide the following arrangement. At 10 is a shell, frame or the like in suitable cylindrical form to it within the bottle neck and provided with an outlet passage 10a adapted to vreceive a cork oi' stopper, and said shell is provided with a transversely disposed wall or shelf 11 above l provided with outlets or openings c com-- diameter or area of the bore of neck 2, providing passageway 12 between the edge of said wall or shelf and the bottle neck. Below wall or shelf 11 the shell or :frame 10 is municating with passage 12 from the bore 10d of shell or frame l0, whereby liquid from the bottle may flow into bore 10, thence through outlets 10c intopassage 12', thence inwardly through openings 10h above wall or shelf 11 and through bore 10a. The shell or frame 10 is provided with ribs 10e shown extending along its wall, the lower edges of said ribs bein beveled or inclined vupwardly and inward y at l0t to engage weight or ball 7 when the bottle 1s inverted.

The valve is shown provided with Ia curved or convex top surface, causing the ball to lie between such surface and the inner end of frame or shell 10 to keep the valve closed. The inclined ends 10f` of ribs 10te serve to permit the ball to move outwardly to enable the valve to lunseat and to permit the flow of liquid past the ball when the bottle is inverted. Shell or frame l0 is shown provided with an annular recess 13 within which a cork or other suitable material 14 is placed to prevent leakage between the neck and shell er frame 10, which material 14 may be placed inrecess 13 before frame or shell 10 is pushed into the bottle neck. To permanently secure frame or shell 10 to the bottle neck I 'have shown the-bottle neck provided with an annular recess 15 registering with a corresponding recess 16 in the outer surface of frame or shell 10, and in said recesses one or more strips of cork or other suitable ma terial 17 are placed to act as an obstruction to the withdrawal of frame or shell 10. By

providing several pieces of cork of suitable size adapted to fit closely within recess 16 the shell 10 with the pieces of cork in recess 16 may be pushed into the bottle neck and then when recess 16 registers with recess 15I the piece of cork will move outwardly, and

extend partly within recess 15 as well as within` recess 16, in substantially the manner shown in Fig. 1, whereby frame or shell 10 will be permanently secured in the bottle neck as'the pieces of cork 17 act in the nature of wedges to prevent withdrawal of frame or stopper 10.

rllhe relative arrangement of the parts is such that weight or bal-l 7 will rest upon the valve when the bottle is upright, and said weight or ball is of such dimensions that when the bottle is horizontal the weight or ball will simultaneously bear against the valve and the' inner edge of frame or shell 10 and thus hold the valve to its seat, and to accommodate the ball 7 in such position the neck may be provided with an enlarged portion 2" between the inner edge of frame or shell 10 and valve seat 3, within which enlarged portion the ball will have free `movement, and to permit the outflow of liquid from the'bottle the same must be tilted m such positlon as to extend in the direction of t e neck downwardly at an angle to the horizontal to enable the ball to ride up upon the inclined ends 10t to allow the valve 5 suiicient freedom of movement to open to permit the outiow of li uid from the bottle through the bore of she 10 around the ball.

en the position of the bottle is reversed the weight will ride back a ainst the valve and close the same. The e ect of this arrangement is that when the bottle is held in a horizontal position the ball will maintain the valve upon its seat to prevent the inflow y of liquid, and when the bottle'is in a position with the neck inclined downwardly with respect to the horizontal, the inflow of liquid into the neck willcause the valve to be seated to prevent liquid entering the bottle. When an attem t is made to pass liquidy into the neck of tlie bottle the hollow valve will rise to its seat. The arrangement of frame or shell 10 is such as to prevent a wire or other instrument from bein pushed into the bottle neck to dislodge t e valve from its seat v or keep the valve oli of its seat.

The arrangement of the valve, the weight or ball and the' frame or shell 10 ma be used with al single seat on the valve an a corresponding seat on the neck if preferred.

Having now described my invention what I claim is 1. A bottle having a neck provided with a plurality of seats s aced apart, and a hollow valve having a urality of seats spaced apart to co-act wit the seats of the neck, the body ofthe valve intermediate the seats being of greater diameter than the similar dimension ofthe lower seat.

2. A bottle having a neck provided with a plurality of seats s aced apart, and a hollow valve having a urality of seats spaced apart to co-act wit the seats of the neck, the body of the valve intermediate the seats being of greater diameter than the similar dimension of the lower seat, said valve being closed against the admission of fluid below .the upper seat.

3. A bottle having a neck provided with a plurality of spaced seats, a hollow valve having a plurality of spaced seats to co-act with the seats of the neck, said valve being circumferentially enlarged above the upper seat and closed to form a head, and a weight to coperate with the head in seating the valve.

4. A bott-le having aneck provided with a plurality of spaced seats, a hollow valve having a plurality of spaced' seats to co-act lwith the seats of the neck, said valve being circumferentially enlarged above the upper seat and closed to form a head, a weight to coperate with the head in seating the valve, and means secured in the bottle neck above the weight to limit movement of the latter lengthwise the neck in coperation with thewith an opening communicating with the interior of the valve,

said opening being arranged outwardlybeyond the upper seat of the valve.

6. A valve for use in non-reillable bottles including a hollow body formed near the upper end to provide a seat, said body being additionally formed near the lower end to provide a second seat, the body being closed against the admission of fluid below the upper seat and formed with an opening communicating with the interior of theI body above the u per seat.

7. A bott e having a neck provided with a plurality of seats spaced apart, 'a hollow valve having a plurality of seats spaced apart to co-act with the seats of the neck, the body of the valve intermediate the seats being of greater diameter than the similar dimension of the lower seat, the valve body above the upper seat being circumferentially enlarged to form a head, and a weight to cooperate with the head in' seating the valve.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New' York, and State of vNew York, this ninth day of July, A. D 1909.

RALPH E. ROBERTS, T. F; BOURNE. 

